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Quotes About Age

Não era novo; era um pensamento quase tão velho como o mundo, um pensamento que só há de acabar quando acabarem os séculos.
~ Machado de Assis
Ora, eu creio que um velho túmulo dá melhor impressão do ofício, se tem as negruras do tempo, que tudo consome. O contrário parece sempre da véspera.
~ Machado de Assis
An old ass knows more than a young colt
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I'm too young and the world is too old
~ Madeleine L'Engle
the European attitude that the very young can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a mature man can be strong enough to be truly tender.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
it's amazing what passing the half-century mark does to free one to be eccentric.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Un asno viejo sabe más que un potro. A. Perez. An old ass knows more than a young colt.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
That was the thing about people her age, they were programmed to work and smile and they just go on with it.
~ Maeve Binchy
At my age, I don't plan that far ahead. I don't even buy green bananas." Maggie Smith in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
~ Maggie Smith
While, like anything else that is learned, addiction may get more engrained with time, people actually have increased odds of recovery as they age, not reduced chances.
~ Maia Szalavitz
They have a national policy where they have no ability grouping until the age of ten." Denmark waits to make selection decisions until maturity differences by age have evened out.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
A typical five-year-old consumes about 60 percent more ketchup than a typical forty-year-old, and the company realized that it needed to put ketchup in a bottle that a toddler could control.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The small initial advantage that the child born in the early part of the year has over
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Or, as the English essayist Thomas De Quincey famously put it: "It is, or it is not, according to the nature of men, an advantage to be orphaned at an early age.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Those born in the last quarter of the year might as well give up on hockey too.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
What was the difference between the As and the Cs? Terman ran through every conceivable explanation. He looked at their physical and mental health, their "masculinity-femininity scores," and their hobbies and vocational interests. He compared the ages when they started walking and talking and what their precise IQ scores were in elementary and high school. In the end, only one thing mattered: family background.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
They're all between sixteen and twenty, so they'd be born in the late sixties.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The only country we don't see this going on is Denmark. They have a national policy where they have no ability grouping until the age of ten." Denmark waits to make selection decisions until maturity differences by age have evened out.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Demographics don't lie, economies don't lie. When the median age of your population is twenty-four-years-old and a quarter of the working population's unemployed - this is not a recipe for success.
~ Ilan Berman
When we lose our spiritual child then that is when we have grown old.
~ Stephen Richards
Success is not about age, it's about action.
~ Richie Norton
Maturity of a woman is not in her age or size for age is just a number and size is figure.
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.
~ Edward Gibbon